My new Quad-core RIG

[dagger_meerkat]

Yep, but I think most retailers have already factored in the price cut this week for the q6600. You could get a q6600 frm tekheads for 139, last week they were at 145. The q6700 might go to £230-£240 perhaps?

[-iceblade^]

i think the q6700 will retail for just a touch more than the q6600 used to...

[dagger_meerkat]

Well in that case, I will just return the q6600 and get the q6700 if its like a tenner more

[GSte]

Q6700s are supposed to be around £165....

[dagger_meerkat]

Its 180 at scan .. got the q6600 myself, so no hit at al

[GSte]

Indeed and it probably OCs to a similar level too.

[dagger_meerkat]

It's this one
Computer hardware and software at amazing prices, available online from Scan Computers UK

Works quite nicely

Hey Mike .. how does this panel work out for you? Do you have the fan in a pull or push configuration?

Is the slot located at GPU level or CPU level. With all my overclocking going on .. I could do with some more airflow, so was thinking of going in for this and the Scythe Kama 5.25' 120mm Drive fan.

What sort of temperature drop did you get?

[Fraz]

Ya, will most probably go for the pc2-6400 ram as I don't see many hitting more than 400fsb on this board with air cooling.

Why do people have this belief that you need to run your RAM with a 1:1 divider?!

[Link97]

Why do people have this belief that you need to run your RAM with a 1:1 divider?!

Apparently it runs better that way.

[NightshadowUK]

Well it ran better at 1:1 back when, but it doesn't make a difference these days so don't worry about it.

[staffsMike]

Hey Mike .. how does this panel work out for you? Do you have the fan in a pull or push configuration?

Is the slot located at GPU level or CPU level. With all my overclocking going on .. I could do with some more airflow, so was thinking of going in for this and the Scythe Kama 5.25' 120mm Drive fan.

What sort of temperature drop did you get?

Sort of sits nicely for both the GPU and CPU and affects both temps. It's brings air into the case

[Fraz]

Apparently it runs better that way.

Not true anymore. My divider is at 1:1.5 I think, and the memory bandwidth is definitely improved by the corresponding amount. Stable as a rock sitting in concrete.

[looney]

Been about 3 years since I last built my PC .. been looking around, lots of reading, lots of questions and lots of confusion I think I know what I need for my new build!

Q6600 G0 SLACR with Zerotherm Nirvana as the cooler
ABIT IP35 Dark Raider
4GB G.Skill PC2-8000 (5-5-5-15)
Asus EN8800GTS 512mb
Samsung SH-S203D 20X DVD±RW/RAM/DL Serial ATA
Creative SoundBlaster X-Fi Xtreme

Components from old build:
Akasa Eclipse 62 case with 2 x Akasa 120mm Amber fans
Western Digital 500GB WD5000AAKS
TAGAN TG530-U22 PSU
Akasa Blue chipset cooler [probably just use the fan for the one of the chipsets on the ABIT]

So what does everybody think, anything that I should change, add or reconsider?

hey ive seen you on ebuyer forums i think

wanted to ask, have you OC'ed on that abit board? whats the board like, any problems?

thanks

[dagger_meerkat]

hey ive seen you on ebuyer forums i think

wanted to ask, have you OC'ed on that abit board? whats the board like, any problems?

thanks

Yeh .. I was all over the place when looking for parts

And finally concluded my valiant research like two weeks ago. I hate building PCs nowdays, 3 years ago .. I could easily have figured out the "best" parts .. jus copy everybody else .. nowdays, its like 10000 permutations which all perform well

Yep .. I am still overclocking but I ended up with a crappy chip that's got a VID of 1.30. So I can only go till 3.33Ghz at vcore of 1.4. I have been trying to get it to 3.42 @ 380 fsb x 9 but its being stubborn. I don't think I can hit 3.5 on this chip or even 3.6 on air .. maybe not even water as it seems to want vcore at 1.45 to do 3.42

Has anyone else ordered Q6600s recently, what kind of VIDs are they getting? I did read somewhere else that most recent ones are coming with higher VIDs.

Board's no problem, I ended up getting the ip35 pro .. and its a brilliant board but annoyingly has plenty of vdroop of 0.06/0.07.

Will be posting up details and photos later on. Did some cable management today .. and it all looks spanky neat! Only got two 120mm x 2 Akasa fans in my case, so might have to add in another as the first is in front of the hdds; so that's not helping at all with cooling. Was thinking about going with this Scythe Kama Bay Fan.

[Blitzen]

Not true anymore. My divider is at 1:1.5 I think, and the memory bandwidth is definitely improved by the corresponding amount. Stable as a rock sitting in concrete.

Yep...
Im stable @ 1:1:1.25

[dagger_meerkat]

Ok .. I am done with my overclocks .. compiled a few results.

Might be helpful to others. How are my temperatures in comparison to those who have similar VID chips? Are these temperatures in-line with what is expected or out of line?

Also, I will definately have to get the Scythe Bay fan .. as I was did some testing today, and my temperatures @ Load dropped by about 4-5 celcius with every overclock shown in the results. Kind of expected as the only intake fan I have is a 120mm in front of the hdds.

The first voltages are BIOS voltages, idle/load are from HW monitor. I have used the lower of the voltages shown by HW monitor and the higher of the core temperatures shown by coretemp.

Ambient temperatures are 21 Celcius.